{"id":138,"date":"2014-11-13T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/ecss2015malmo\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T10:36:16","slug":"invited-session-sport-for-development-and-peace-critical-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/ecss2015malmo\/invited-session-sport-for-development-and-peace-critical-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited Session: Sport for Development and Peace \u2013 Critical Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Post by Niklas Hafen.<\/p><\/div>\n

The local organizers of the ECSS Congress 2015 in Malm\u00f6 will endeavour to increase the number of sessions and presentations \u2013 of all kinds \u2013 within the Social Sciences & Humanities area. To that end we will utilize the blog to present some of the sessions, and later presentations, in this area.<\/p>\n

The invited session Sport for Development and Peace \u2013 Critical Perspectives<\/strong> is chaired by Cora Burnett, University of Johannesburg, who also is one of three presenters, the others being Simon Darnell, University of Toronto and Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n

The last decade, especially since the United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals, has seen a significant expansion in the use of sport as a means to initiate social change throughout the world. Projects (governmental and non-governmental) involving sport have included attempts to educate young people about health concerns, discourage anti-social and criminal behaviour, increase gender-awareness, as well as assisting with reconciliation of communities in conflict (Levermore & Beacom 2009). Scholars have referred to this trend as Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), which implies the intentional use of sport, physical activity and play to attain specific development and peace objectives around the world (Darnell 2012; Kidd 2008). One of the features of recent research in the field of SDP has been inter-disciplinarily, with scholars from management, sociology, education and policy studies all asking important questions and producing significant findings and criticisms. While this trend illustrates the growing depth of the field, it also has the potential to create silos within the research community, particularly between a monitoring & evaluation (M&E) approach on the one hand and critical analyses on the other.<\/p>\n

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Cora Burnett, Simon Darnell and Lyndsay Hayhurst<\/p><\/div>\n

In his presentation \u201cApproaching \u2018Sport for Development and Peace\u2019 as an Inter-disciplinary Project\u201d, Simon Darnell attempt to reconcile these perspectives in productive ways. He suggests that M&E-focused research can inform a critical understanding of SDP by analysing the development effects of sport, both positive and negative. Vice versa, a critical sociology of sport-for-development \u2013 using, for example, macro theories of political economy and post-colonialism \u2013 can inform and improve SDP policy and practice by highlighting inequalities and challenging historical amnesia. Cora Burnett\u2019s presentation \u201cLocal voices, sense-making and agency in the \u2018uptake\u2019 of \u2018Sport for Development and Peace\u2019 projects in Africa\u201d follows an inductive approach with clustered themes of real-live experiences and \u2018uptake\u2019 from local constituencies. Issues of \u2018empowerment\u2019, \u2018development\u2019 and knowledge production are discussed and linked to methodological challenges. Various case studies will serve to mediate local voices as programmes inevitably have intended and unintended consequences, resulting in resultant socialization processes of exchange and agency. Finally, Lyndsay Hayhurst\u00b4s presentation \u201cMaking Transnational, Cross-Cultural (Dis)connections in Sport for Development and Peace: Exploring Multi-sited Social and Power Relations\u201d draws on multi-sited, transnational and cross-cultural empirical studies of SDP conducted over the past years in order to highlight the importance of exploring complex social and power relations translated through diverse actors and contexts. Throughout the presentation, Hayhurst consider the ways that global and cultural flows \u2013 and multiple connections \u2013 expand across transnational SDP and \u2018hold it together\u2019 against the diverse forces of disparate social locations, interests, identities and access to resources.<\/p>\n

Niklas Hafen
\nDept. of Sport Sciences, Malm\u00f6 University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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